yamila velazquez - Oro ancestral

About the artwork:
The piece presented forms part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back, all pertinent data about the work, numbering and signature are included.
Total dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality professional canvas 100% cotton, maximum resistance to handling and external factors from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with strong visual quality.
Technique: Giclée printing, renowned for its precision and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested expressly at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools; she currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to selling, representing, and developing artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensibility.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the digital art field, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her surroundings. Her works address with subtlety and visual strength topics such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With vibrant and expressive aesthetics, Yamila Velázquez manages to fuse classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The pictorial texture of her images, masterful use of color, and emotionally balanced composition position her work as contemporary art with high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The artwork will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to guarantee its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
Estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

The image printed on canvas that we contemplate is a work that strongly enters the tradition of classic portraiture, while simultaneously reclaiming a contemporary approach to identity, pride, and cultural heritage. The scene is simple in its compositional structure — a frontal close-up of a woman — but deeply symbolic in its execution, its visual language, and its narrative intention.

The face of the female figure rises as a majestic affirmation: symmetrical, firm, lit precisely to accentuate every curve and volume of the face, every reflection on the skin. Her gaze, serene and direct, penetrates the pictorial plane, establishing a powerful connection with the viewer. Her green eyes shine like emeralds, contrasted with the warmth of her skin, while her lips — covered with liquid gold — evoke a sacred sensuality, almost ritual.

The use of gold in the image is particularly meaningful. Far from being a mere aesthetic resource, the gold here is a symbol of power, lineage, spirituality. The turban, the lips, the leaf-shaped earrings, and the background with geometric patterns that recall African textile art, construct a visual narrative about the royalty hidden in everyday life, about a woman who is both an ancestral goddess and a figure of the present. The rich, velvety texture of the background merges past and present, ritual and aesthetics, personal identity and collective memory.

From a technical standpoint, the work stands out for its meticulous attention to detail and mastery of chiaroscuro. The lighting is expertly controlled to enhance the three-dimensionality of the face, without losing the softness of the gesture or the symbolic intensity of color. The color palette, restricted to gold tones and earth tones, achieves a hypnotic visual unity that heightens the drama and elegance of the portrait.

Conceptually, the work can be read as a visual ode to Afro-descendant femininity, to the value of roots, to empowering without ostentation. This woman does not need to speak: her mere presence, her silent history-and-gold-loaded presence, tells us an ancient tale of resistance, beauty, and transcendence.

“Ancestral Gold” is not just a portrait. It is a proclamation. An image that transforms the decorative into the symbolic, the aesthetic into sacred. This work reminds us that classical art is not limited to European history, but can be reborn from any cultural lineage with the same nobility and depth. Here, in this golden and eternal figure, the dignity of centuries is concentrated.”}}{